I’m old enough and grew up in a place where this magazine was the best and only way to get decent national sports news. To see that get devoured by cost- and quality-cutting VC ghouls is a giant drag. I’m sure underpaid contract writers will be able to pick up the slack though. God knows I go to SBNation every day to…

This is my favorite site on the internet and I won’t go to it on mobile. “Oh, were you listening to music? Fuck you. Here’s a toothpaste ad.”

It’s the same thing that gets the Bret Stephens of the world moaning incessantly. They’re famous and successful and a world where some dude named bonerlord420 on Twitter can shame them is tough to abide.

He’s claimed Steve Nash is “essentially” Nigerian. He might have brain damage. 

My personal sensibilities align with Bernie but I’d be 80-90% as enthusiastic if they ran Warren. After that, the enthusiasm withers on the vine. In my voting lifetime (first time was during Gore/Bush), the Democrats have ran exactly one candidate voters were excited about. He won. Maybe do that again?

Harris was pretty bad in the recent debate. She owns in the Senate when she’s making Jeff Sessions et al. blow out their diapers. In other words: she’s better asking questions than answering them. 

Unironically using “Bernie bros” as a reason for anything is a pretty clear signal you don’t know what you’re talking about. 

I don’t really know what’s going on here but this owns.

Mostly, yes! But even with the vague diversity they had (it wasn’t full rural Utah in there), they were all united that Castro was mean and Biden was great. It was lockstep and gross. 

Both. I worked with a lady who volunteered for Hillary, was just neck-deep in the whole thing. I’m in SF, so voting for Hillary was essentially a given--it was just a matter of how enthused you were to do it. 

While Hillary was too hawkish and right-leaning for me, I do understand her appeal and have met plenty of people who were enthusiastic about her and her candidacy. Meanwhile, I’ve never met anyone genuinely animated about Joe Biden, ever. Which seems like a bad recipe for success, but I don’t spent my time at WASPy…

My point at the end was that the pundit-and-party-ordained candidates are frequently not what the electorate wants. Hillary’s loss of the nomination to Obama is another data point here. And as much as it makes us all want to drink bleach, Trump evidences the same trend.

If you weren’t remora-ing on Rap Rock Obama’s popularity, were you even there? 

The post-debate coverage on ABC (I know, this is my fault) was a really icky parade of bland veejays insisting that Castro was mean and wrong and celebrating Biden for some vague, ineffable fightitude while providing no evidence for either. Strangely, they glossed over the fact every other Biden response was an…

2-14, most likely. 

My point was that you can be pro-player and not be pro-this-player-in-this-circumstance.

Generally, contracts require both parties to uphold their end of the deal. I’d assume not showing up for work, snitch-taping your boss and posting that on the internet, and threatening your boss/colleague might not be kosher. You can be pro-player and not show your ass here. 

Garner: No. Stop. It doesn’t even sound cool. 

In honor of their first new music in like 45 years, here’s a creepy Tool video. Album seems kinda good!

Does it make some kind of sense on paper? Sure. But I have a really hard time giving Pelinka and Dwight the benefit of the doubt. They’ve shown their asses time and time again. At some point, it’s best to assume they’ll continue doing so.